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thousand (18,000) freedmen, and I think after a crop, these schools can all support themselves or nearly so. There is a fund remaining in your hands of about thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) from the sale of rebel property in this State, which you told me I could do as I pleased with, and which can be well applied in this way. An indefinite number of schools can I find be raised on these conditions.
2." My suggestion that in Mobile we rent some lots, and erect some half-dozen school houses of moderate size, has the hearty approval of all parties. Shall we go on? I am still working to get hold of the hospital.
3." I enclose to you herewith, a letter in reply to mine to Capt Arthur in relation to the purchase of the Baptist College at Talladega. These I believe we can at small expense, get under way a lasting and secure institution capable of indefinite development. It is healthy, central and accessible and the property can be had for